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Dale Yeager – a school safety expert for the White House and Congress – says that the recent school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Parkland Florida is indicative of the poor management that he sees as epidemic in U.S. schools.

Yeager who heads the SERAPH School Safety Research Team – a group tasked by the White House in 2000 to provide a semiannual report entitled THE STATE OF SCHOOL SAFETY IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS to Congress – says the lack of security training and management is at the heart of this crime.

Dale Yeager – a school safety expert for the White House and Congress – says that the recent school shooting at Marshall County High School Kentucky is indicative of the poor management that he sees as epidemic in U.S. schools.

Yeager who heads the SERAPH School Safety Research Team – a group tasked by the White House in 2000 to provide a semiannual report entitled THE STATE OF SCHOOL SAFETY IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS to Congress – says the lack of security training and management is at the heart of this crime.

Licenses issued by states with extensions will now be valid until October 11, 2018.

If you’ve been on the internet at all in the past few years, you’ve no doubt seen something on the Real ID Act—in between all those Game of Thrones spoilers and travel inspiration for 2018, that is. Still, it can be hard to keep it all straight. Making things even more confusing? Recently, that looming January 22 deadline—the cutoff date for when U.S. airports will start refusing to accept licenses from certain states—was quietly changed for some.

After a year marked by campus confrontations between white nationalists and anti-fascist extremists, university administrators are preparing for a combative and potentially violent 2018 by beefing up security and examining the boundaries of their own commitment to free speech.

Administrators at many campuses told POLITICO that they are struggling to balance their commitment to free speech with campus safety, as white nationalists and left-wing provocateurs vow to continue the types of confrontations that have led to violence in Berkeley, California, and Charlottesville, Virginia.

WASHINGTON — The annual number of persons prosecuted for commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) cases filed in U.S. district court nearly doubled between 2004 and 2013, increasing from 1,405 to 2,776 cases, the Bureau of Justice Statistics announced today.

During the period, a CSEC crime was the most serious offense or lead charge for 37,105 suspects referred to U.S. attorneys for investigation. Suspects referred for the possession of child pornography (72 percent) accounted for the majority of all CSEC suspects, followed by those suspected of child sex trafficking (18 percent) and child pornography production (10 percent).

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is set to give a major speech Thursday on Obama-era directives on campus rape in the wake of a damning report spotlighting a lack of due process rights for accused students across university campuses.

DeVos is expected to make an announcement regarding Title IX, the 1972 campus gender equality law, at George Mason University in Virginia, BuzzFeed News reported.

Insiders have described the event as “centered around equal opportunity and equal protection of all.”

Education experts have long expected DeVos to make a move on Title IX and the Education Department 2011 directive named “A Dear Colleague Letter” that set the procedures for colleges that receive a sexual assault report.

The current increase in special needs children has created a financial crisis for school districts throughout the United States.

“The issue is one that school board members and superintendents need to address now”, states Dale Yeager [Head of the School Safety Research Team U.S. Senate].
“As a USDOE recommended resource we monitor this issue for our clients. Most LEAs and districts are only getting a portion of the federal grants that they are entitled to.”

In the last decade, there were numerous reports of fraudulent acts committed by school officials, many resulting in criminal indictments and jail sentences for the perpetrators, as well as significant monetary costs and adverse publicity for the victimized school districts. More recent media headlines identifying fraud in schools again remind us that investigative audits are critical to the continued cultivation of trust and accountability in our education system.

Alearning-disabledthird-grader who was cruellybulliedby classmates at highly rated PS 6 on the Upper East Side was deprived of her educational rights — and the city must pay for her tuition at a private school, a top appellate court has ruled.

The landmark decision by theUS Court of Appeals for the Second Circuitfound that Principal Lauren Fontana “stonewalled” the girl’s parents, refusing to discuss the bullying or address it in her special-education plan.

The three-member appellate panel unanimously upheld a ruling by federal Judge Jack Weinstein that the city Department of Education violated the US Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Dale Yeager Forensic Profiler and costar of the new History Channel series ‘True Monsters’, has published a new Amazon Kindle book for parents entitled “3 Myths About Bullying”.

Yeager who worked for the Boulder District Attorney’s office in 1997 on the original murder investigation of JonBenet Ramsey, has released an e-book on bullying titled “3 Myths About Bullying” What Every Parent and Grandparent Should know to Protect Children and Grandchildren. The book focuses on inaccurate information about bullying that Yeager says can endanger children.